Language change in scientific discourse
Halliday has demonstrated that changes in discourse function covary with changes in the grammatical resources a language makes available to construe discourse. Specifically, he outlined the ways in which nominalisation evolved as a resource for construing scientific reality as a world of logical rel...
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| Language: | English |
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Sissa Medialab
2004-06-01
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| Series: | JCOM: Journal of Science Communication |
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| Online Access: | http://jcom.sissa.it/article/art030201.pdf |